"Spec Ops was a great game and I know that while the guys at Yager were developing it they played a lot of Dead Island in the office, to have a break.
To try a whole new genre and way of doing things," says Ashdown. Clearly, that's the reason so many other journalists wanted to meet Ashdown too.īut Dead Island 2's zombie smash-up is quite the departure from Spec Ops' anti-war war game. But the fact it's being worked on by Yager is the biggest point of interest for me. I would have been more blasé about the sequel if a lesser developer was involved. I played it because it was there until something better came along. I got it cheap or maybe even free with a subscription. I found the original Dead Island a fairly simple take on zombies and gore a fun stomp around the undead where its mix of crafting, fetch quests and head shots helped pass away a few hours. But Spec Ops was one of the reasons he applied for the job at Yager. The PR person overseeing the interview rolls her eyes as Ashdown politely explains that he joined the company just after Spec Ops was released. It turns out everyone meeting him today has asked the same question. When I first meet Isaac Ashdown, senior gameplay programmer at Yager, I ask him if he worked on Spec Ops: The Line. "What we're trying to do is make it so other players are just one of many things that are going on in the world and help give it a sense of life." Without a release date or indications as to what has changed, though, this is about as close as you’ll get to playing the title for a long while.What attracted the developer of Spec Ops: The Line to Dead Island 2? Co-op and California. And in case you’re wondering: yes, Sumo’s version of Dead Island 2 is still in the works. The leak is more a peek at an alternate history than anything else. Deep Silver and Yager split in July 2015, just weeks after this build was available, and Sumo Digital took the reins from Yager in March 2016. Not that you’ll ever see it officially finished, however. It was surprisingly complete with three locations, a variety of characters and little touches like head stomping - it wouldn’t have been ready for shipping, but it might not have needed much more time. As you might expect, it revolved around creatively shooting and slicing zombies in an overrun Los Angeles.
A leaked (via Eurogamer and Kotaku) June 2015 gameplay build, reportedly originating on 4chan, shows just how the game was shaping up in its original form. Dead Island 2 is still in development limbo years after its 2014 reveal, but you now know what it would have looked like if Deep Silver and Yager hadn’t parted ways.
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